Youth Program Staff

Ann Krinitsky, Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra Director

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As Director of Marin Symphony Youth Performance programs and the Virtuoso Program at San Domenico School, Ann Krinitsky also conducts Family Concerts with the Marin Symphony.
She graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied with Michael Senturia. Ms. Krinitsky completed three summers of study with Harold Farberman and various visiting artists at the Conductors’ Institute at Hartt School of Music in Connecticut.
In the Bay Area, her posts have included Director of Orchestras at Stanford University; Music Director of the Nova Vista Symphony, Palo Alto Philharmonic, Berkeley Youth and Community Women’s Orchestras; Conductor of the Acalanes Chamber Orchestra; and Assistant Conductor of the Pacific Mozart Ensemble. She has guest conducted the Women’s Philharmonic, the Camellia Symphony, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, the Marin Chamber Orchestra, and the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra.
She is a frequent guest conductor with the Honolulu and Hawaii Symphony Orchestras. She regularly conducts Ballet Hawaii’s Nutcracker and has enjoyed numerous collaborations with Chamber Music Hawaii and the Onium Ballet Project. Ms. Krinitsky received the 2000-01 JoAnn Falletta Conducting Award, given by The Women’s Philharmonic and funded by the Stein Foundation for the Arts and Sciences. She is married to conductor and timpanist Stuart Chafetz.

Anne Lerner, Conductor,
Overture String Ensemble & Crescendo Orchestra

Overture & Crescendo conductor Anne Lerner studied at Northwestern University, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts in Music as a cello performance major. Before Northwestern, Anne studied Spanish Literatrure at Bryn Mawr College and in Madrid. She has been performing as a cellist in the Bay Area since 1989, when she moved from her native Chicago to study with Irene Sharp at the San Francisco Conservatory, where she earned a Master of Music in Cello Performance. Anne has performed with many Bay Area orchestras and is a frequent performer of chamber music. She is currently the cellist with Ensemble For These Times, a new music trio based in Berkeley, Their album, “The Hungarians: from Rosza to Justus” on the Centaur label was awarded a Gold Medal by the Global Music Awards in 2018. An equally important part of Anne’s musical life is music education. In addition to her work with the Marin Symphony Youth Programs, she is currently on the faculty of Dominican University, and has a large private cello studio in San Rafael.

Andrei Gorchov, Assistant Conductor and Youth Programs Administrator

Andrei Gorchov was born in Marin County, CA, where he attended Redwood High School and began playing the flute at age 8. He has been a soloist and an orchestral musician with the Marin Symphony and is an alumnus of the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra. After receiving a degree in flute performance from San Francisco State University, Andrei has pursued a career in conducting which has led him from the Oakland Youth Orchestra to Tanglewood. As a choral conductor, Andrei has taught at Singers Marin and at Redwood High School. As an orchestral conductor, Andrei has studied with Michael Morgan and has been the associate conductor for the Oakland Youth Orchestra, which included a tour to Greece in 2006. Andrei is deeply involved in and committed to the value of youth music and education in Marin County and currently holds a studio of over 40 young flutists.

 

Marin Symphony Youth Programs
c/o The Marin Symphony
4340 Redwood Highway, Suite 409c
San Rafael, CA  94903
Phone: 415.479.8105
Email: youth@marinsymphony.org